US636075A - Wire-stretcher. - Google Patents

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NOW-635,975. Patented Oct. 3|, I899.

J. 8. SMITH. v

WIRE- STBETGHER.

(Application filed June 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES A TTOHNE YS.

UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES s. SMITH, OF BEEBE, ARKANSAS.

WIRE S'TRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,075, dated October 31, 1899 Application filed June 6,1899. Serial No. 719,586. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES 8. SMITH, residing at Beebe, in the county of White and State of Arkansas, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Stretchers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in wirestretchers seeking to provide a simple construction by which the wire can be stretched, including means for guiding and supporting the stretching-chain in advance of the point of the application of the stretching force; also, to provide improvements in the means for connecting the wire to be stretched with the stretching-chain and to furnish other improvements, as will be more fully described.

The invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my wire-stretcher as in use. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating the means whereby the wire to be stretched and the stretching-chain are connected. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the stretching-lever and connected parts partly broken away. Fig. 5 illustrates the improvement in use in splicing barbed wire, and Fig. 6 illustrates in detail the connection of the hooks with the stretching-lever.

The wires A may be secured to the post B in any desired manner.

The stretching-lever O is pivoted at O preferably to a chain D, whose other end is passed around a post B and is secured bya hook D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. On opposite sides of its pivot the levers O are provided with the stretching-hooks E, which are loosely jointed at their ends E to the lever (J and are bent at their other or free ends E so they can move alternately into engagement with the stretching-chain F and engage the same and draw upon it alternately as the lever O is rocked on its pivot C.

The chain F is connected with the wire A to be stretched, preferably, by the means shown in detail in Fig. 3, and consisting of a ring G on the free end of the stretching-chain F and a pin H crossing the ring G, the wire A being passed through the ring G on one side of the pin H, thence over the pin H, and

again through the ring G on the opposite side of the pin and bent at A around the stretching-chain. This forms a secure connection for the wire, which can be quickly effected and would be found especially convenient in connecting barbed wire with the stretching-chain.

To support the stretching-chain in advance of the point of application of the stretching force, which is at the point where the hooks E engage such chain, I provide the lever O at a point between its stretching-hooks with a ring I, which forms a guide for the slack portion of the stretching-chain. This ring I is preferably located at the pivot O of the lever O and receives the slack of the stretching-chain, guides the same out of the way, and relieves any downward strain on the stretching-hooks at the point of their engagement with the stretching-chain.

In. addition to its usefulness as a wirestretcher my invention will be found of convenience in stretching and splicing the separated ends of barbed wire. This is shown in Fig. 5, in which the chain D is illustrated as wrapped into connection with one end J of barbed wire and the chain F in connection with another end J of barbed wire, so the two can be drawn forcibly together by the lever C and spliced at J 2 in any suitable manner.

The invention is simple, possesses no parts .likely to get out of order, can be easily carried from place to place, and be readily applied for use.

As best shown in Fig. 6, the hooks are so connected with the stretching-1e ver that they will not drop at their free ends, but will be held at all times in position to properly engage with the stretching-chain.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. The herein-described wire-stretchercomprising the lever pivoted between its ends, the stretching-hooks pivotally connected at one end with the lever and adapted at their free ends to engage the stretching-chain, and a supporting guide-ring depending from the lever between the two stretching hooks, through which ring the chain may freely pass, substantially as set forth.

2. A wire stretcher substantially as described, consisting of the stretching-chain, a

circular ring at the free end thereof, a pin crossing said ring; the Wire disposed through ring and adapted to engage with and operate the stretching-chain all substantially as and 10 said ring and over said pin and thence along for the purposes set forth. the stretching-chain, the lever pivoted between its ends and provided with a depending guide-ring through which the stretchingehain may freely pass, and the hooks carried by the lever on opposite sides of the guide- JAMES S. SMITIL Witnesses:

FRED. T. RUCKER, DAVID D. COLE.

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